"Dumping" an image onto a flash device destroys any prior file-system in the partition; access to any data not destroyed will be lost, and partition capacity will be reduced to the image size. In other words, all prior data on the device is at risk.

These ISOs contains Free Software and some proprietary drivers.You will be asked of which kind of Software you want to install.The installer includes the capability of adding the online Mageia repositories during the installation, which means you can install even more packages than those available on the ISO.

For 32 and 64bit, size of the ISOs is about 3.7GB.

DVDs Live

Live ISO's let you try Mageia 6 without installation. You can run Mageia directly from a DVD or USB device, and try it using one of the graphical user interfaces such as GNOME, Plasma or Xfce.

If you are happy with the Mageia experience, you can then install it onto your hard drive from the Live media.

Use LiveDVDs for fresh new installs ONLY. DO NOT use these LiveDVDs to upgrade from the prior Mageia release!
Use a classical installation and see upgrade guide.

For LiveDVDs, size of the ISOs is about 1.7GB.

Wired Network-based Installation CD

Download quickly and immediately boot into install mode from wired network or a local disk.